This thread is a collection of good movies to watch any day of the year! I will post one film every 24 hours or so.

Movie of the Day:

>Hausu (1977)

A Japanese horror comedy film directed and produced by Nobuhiko Obayashi. It stars mostly amateur actors. The film follows a schoolgirl traveling with her six classmates to her ailing aunt's country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home.

A French drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the Italian novel Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon) by Alberto Moravia. Starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Giorgia Moll, the film occurs entirely in Italy, with location shooting at the Cinecittà studios in Rome and the Casa Malaparte on Capri island.

A Soviet science fiction art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with its screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic, the film features a mixture of elements from the science fiction genre with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes.

A Danish-British-Norwegian documentary on the individuals who took part in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The real killers recount their experiences of the murders for the cameras, and make scenes depicting their memories and feelings about the killings. The scenes are produced in the style of their favorite films: gangster, western, and musical.

A Hong Kong action drama film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. The film consists of two stories told in sequence, each about a lovesick Hong Kong policeman mulling over his relationship with a woman. The Chinese title translates to 'Chungking Forest/Jungle', referring to the metaphorical concrete jungle of the city.

A film by German director Werner Herzog. Written specifically for Bruno S., the film was shot in Wisconsin and North Carolina. The titular character, an alcoholic street performer recently released from prison in Berlin, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

An Iranian film written, directed, and produced by Abbas Kiarostami. It is a minimalist film about a man who drives through a Tehran suburb looking for someone who can carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide. It was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

An Italian-Algerian historical war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and starring Jean Martin and Saadi Yacef. It is based on events during the Algerian War against the French government in North Africa; the most prominent being the Battle of Algiers, the capital of Algeria, from 1956-57.

A Thai art drama film written, produced, and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film, which explores the theme of reincarnation, won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Thai film to do so. The film centers on the last days in the life of its title character.

>>386858I torrented this a couple weeks back but havn't gotten around to watching it yet. It was apparently incredibly influential for guerrilla movements and counter-insurgency strategy, the Pentagon held a screening during W Bush's Iraq war.

A Canadian film by David Cronenberg. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF television station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers the signal's source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent organic hallucinations.

>>386988I love this god damn movie. There's so much going on with the visual and "dream" sequences. Problem is I don't have anyone to watch it with cause i showed it to my friends and they just didn't get it.

An American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel. The screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who cowrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep in 1946. The film stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe and features Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, and Mark Rydell.

A Japanese period tragedy film directed, edited and co-written by Akira Kurosawa as an adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. The film was Kurosawa's last epic, and has often been cited as amongst his finest achievements. The Japanese title translates to 'chaos'.

A South Korean thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook. The film follows the story of Oh Dae-su, who is imprisoned in a cell which resembles a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives. When he is finally released, Dae-su finds himself still trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence.

A Mexican western drama film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about a violent, black-clad gunfighter and his quest for enlightenment.

An American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The movie tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension, which comes to a head and culminates in tragedy on the hottest day of summer. In 1999, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A British television documentary series of four episodes by filmmaker Adam Curtis. In the series, Curtis argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity, and instead have 'distorted and simplified our view of the world around us.' The title is taken from a 1967 poem of the same name by Richard Brautigan.

A French documentary directed by Chris Marker. The film is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory, and how, as a result, the perception of personal and global histories is affected. The title 'Sans Soleil' is from the song cycle Sunless by Modest Mussorgsky.

An Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica, adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from a novel by Luigi Bartolini. The film follows the story of a poor father searching post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.

An American ensemble drama film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Jason Robards and Melora Walters, and is a mosaic of interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

An American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. The film is a tale of mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle government secrets.

A Japanese animated war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata and animated by Studio Ghibli, based on a semi-autobiographical short story. Set in the city of Kobe, Japan, the film tells the story of two siblings, Seita and Setsuko, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Second World War.

He got shit on at the time for his scenery-chewing and being hammy, but I always loved him in Arsenic and Old Lace. Time seems to have been kind, though, since critics seem to be on the same page these days that it he was appropriately silly for such a silly movie.

A British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Based on Robinson's life in London, the plot follows two unemployed young actors, who live in a squalid flat in Camden Town in 1969 while squandering their finances on alcohol. The film has tragic and comic elements and is notable for its period music and many quotable lines.

>>387500stevens hereBizzel deleted it and now he's all nervous that he'll get in trouble for it cuz he's a newmod bitchboi still learning the ropes. IMO this is his thread so he can do what he wants, but I don't know that it was a post that would get deleted in any other thread. Some mod OPs want their threads to go a certain way. He's cool, just a spaz, I doubt he will fuck with /mtv/ and if he does I'll give him a spanking in a sexual way

A French-German road film directed by Wim Wenders. The movie focuses on an amnesiac named Travis, who, after mysteriously wandering out of the desert, attempts to reconnect with his brother and young son. After reconnecting with his son, Travis and the boy end up embarking on a voyage through the American Southwest to track down Travis' long-missing wife.

A Swedish drama-fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in Sweden during the Black Death, it tells of the journey of a medieval knight and a game of chess he plays with the personification of Death, who has come to take his life.

A movie about the indigenous mountain tribes of the island of Taiwan, who had a wary but peaceful coexistence with Chinese merchants, until Japan seized control and brutally set out to bring civilization to the "savages." Same old recipe of what happens when strong empire meets foreign indigenous people. Absolutely gorgeous film.

A Soviet biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Set in the 15th century, the film depicts a great artist, Rublev, in a turbulent period of Russian history. The film's themes include artistic freedom, religion, political ambiguity, autodidacticism, and the making of art under a repressive regime.

A Spanish black comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas. The 'ataques de nervios' of the title are a culture-bound psychological phenomena, during which the individual displays a dramatic outpouring of negative emotions and bodily gestures in response to extraordinary stress.

An Iranian docufiction film about human identity that was written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami. The film tells the story of the real-life trial of a man who impersonated filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, conning a family into believing they would star in his new film. It features the people involved, acting as themselves.

A French-Italian crime film co-written and directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, and François Périer. The film blends 1940s American gangster cinema, 1960s French pop culture, and Japanese lone-warrior mythology to create a maverick genre-bender.

An American crime action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, with an original soundtrack by RZA. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious 'Ghost Dog', a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in Hagakure, the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings.

Whitaker is great as the lead. I don't know what kind of training he had before the movie, but his movement is so fluid, he makes you believe a husky black dude really is a samurai master.

i feel like it's a movie tarantino jerks off to, deconstructing both gangster and samurai gangster films in a way that tarantino has tried, but failed to emulate. kill bill comes close, but it gives too much credence to style and not enough to substance. whereas ghost dog has both in spades.

>>387041This is one of my all time favorite movies. It's an acid noir, in the same way that El Topo (which you also posted) is an acid western. Not only is it a fucking Phillip Marlowe film set in the 80's, it subverts nearly every classic trope of the noir genre. Most importantly the bond a detective and his partner share. Contrast Same Spades speech at the end of Maltese Falcon "when your partner dies, you're supposed to do something about it, even if you didn't like him", with Marlowe literally hunting down and murdering his partner.

>>387756Also rad, were you going to post this anyway or did you take my suggesstion? I was thinking about hijacking this thread and posting my own movies once in a while. Mostly movies that, based on what you've posted, I think you would like and may not have seen.

A Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary written, produced, and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, who are also the film's co-editor, cinematographer and lead actor respectively. It features a crew of filmmakers following a serial killer and recording his horrific crimes for a documentary they are producing.

>>387789Yeah so I thought about it and I'm going to start randomly posting movies I think you might like and not know about. You seem to know a lot of shit so I'll try to keep them obscure and edgy. It'd be cool if you tell me if you like/have seen the movies I post.

Movies OP Might Like:

>The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

Polish film direct by Wojciech J. Has based on the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. It tells a series of nested stories that take place in different time periods and focus on different characters which somehow all loop into each other in strange, ambiguous, and maddening ways. Notably this film was brought out of complete obscurity in 2001 when the unlikely trio of Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jerry Garcia financed the subtitling, restoring, and re-distribution of the film in the United States.

PS I love Man Bites Dog. I kinda wanted to post another film which I find to be very similar but I wanted to start with Saragossa Manuscript, as it's one of my favorite obscure mystical films, and I find that a lot of serious movie buffs don't know about it. I'll post the one related to Man Bites Dog later, it's a Gaspar Noe film, bonus points if you can guess it.

An Italian drama film directed by Federico Fellini, co-written with Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film portrays a naïve young woman who is bought from her mother by a brutish strongman and forced to accompany him on the road with a traveling circus. It won the inaugural Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957.

A Japanese animated comedy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The film revolves around an Italian ex-fighter ace of World War I living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing air pirates in the Adriatic Sea. After an unusual curse transforms him into an anthropomorphic pig, he is known to the world as Porco Rosso, Italian for 'red pig'.

An American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper. The movie follows a group of friends who are preyed upon by a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. It is credited with originating several common elements of the genre, including the use of power tools as murder weapons and the characterization of the killer as a hulking, faceless figure.

A French drama film, the debut of the director François Truffaut; it stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, the movie is about Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who struggles with his parents and teachers due to his rebellious behavior.

I really like Gaspar Noé, his films are usually pretty messed up. One of his more recent films, the name of which I can't remember, is notable for having a lot of unsimulated sex and orgies in it shot in really loathful ways.

>>387985I didn't care for this film the first time I saw it, but weeks later scenes and lines from it just kept popping up in my head. So I watched it again and loved it. Films like this is why life is too short to watch anime.

An American drama film directed by Kelly Reichardt. Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work. Her only companion is her dog, Lucy. She is already perilously close to losing everything before her old car breaks down, and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. After posting bail, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.

i found enter the void very faux in all elements, especially the visuals, it feels like it has purely tried to jump on the psychedelic cult movie bandwagon but all it ends up doing is initiating bad trips for people who actually do psychedelics and watch it.

its a trap, not a trip. the movie sober still doesnt stand up, its very slow and just outright uninteresting and thats on the first watch, the second watch is even worse.

A Japanese slice-of-life comedy-drama film written and directed by Katsuhito Ishii. It is concerned with the lives of the Haruno family, who live in rural Tochigi Prefecture, the countryside north of Tokyo. The film has been referred to as a surreal version of Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.

A Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by Cuarón and his brother Carlos. It tells a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys who take a road trip with a woman in her late twenties. The film reimagines the American road movie genre to depict Mexico’s geography, politics, people, and culture.

A Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay. The film portrays the friendship of a bullied 12-year-old boy and a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s.

>>387108The Malaysia Delay was a plant...a ruse. The real signal was coming from Pittsburgh. The Malaysian pirate station represents primal violence. When first introduced in the film it is introduced as a signal originating from a far off and "savage" land. Then only several scenes later it is revealed not to be coming from the far off land alone, for its true origin was "home", as in all men are the baser instincts of beasts. All men, all people, savage, and civilized, both the same. At least in as far as primal violent instinct goes.

There's more to the pirate station though. It is a snuff factory. Rewatching this film it made me feel like it was way ahead of its time. The Malaysian/Pittsburgh signal is basically the equivalent to any one of many sick fucked up deep web pages. Now, what happens when people watch the signal? It warps them. It fucks with them. It changes their perception of reality to such an extent that they lose touch with their own bodies senses. It even goes so far as to literally warp the flesh of the viewer.

This doom signal, is created both within and without. It comes from inside as well as outside. And if you sit an watch this signal for too long, like those who watch the void...the void watches back, not because the void is conscious outside you, but because the void is conscious within you. It recognizes itself. And as you feed it, so shall it grow. Until one day, it destroys you.

This is the peril of Videodrome. A world where people worship the cathode ray tube, a world much like ours where we worship our youtube. Both worlds we expose ourselves willingly in the seeking of cheap thrills through observing violence through a screen. Horrors untold, in all their fiber optic gore. Shredding and ripping the mind with terror and deep unsettlement. This has an effect on society as a whole. Maybe they didn't know how literal their film would one day become. Maybe when they made it what they were really touching on was the fantasy violence that was inundating american society in the 80s. As much as I hate to admit it, maybe there's something to the slippery slope argument. We've gone from watching Arnie blowing up jungle asians while fighting the intergalactic predator, to literally almost every child with internet access being exposed to the most satanic sadistic malicious torture sessions known to exist on video. Having said that I don't support censorship. If people are fucking sick, that's their problem and they need to sort it out.

An American comedy film written and directed by Richard Linklater. The movie features a large ensemble cast, including Matthew McConaughey, Jason London, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich, Cole Hauser, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Nicky Katt, and Rory Cochrane. The plot follows various groups of Texas teenagers during the last day of school in 1976.

A British fantasy film produced and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Peter Vaughn, and David Warner. The film is the first of Gilliam's trilogy of imagination, which depicts the craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible.

>>388353Never liked it either. Tried watching it on Netflix a few years back but I honestly got so bored and turned it off. Kinda feel the same way about Baron Munchausen as well and never seen Jabberwocky. I really don't think he hit his prime until 12 Monkeys though. Everything he's done since been sublime with the exception of Parnassus (though Gilliam probably did the best he could salvaging it given the circumstances).

>>388353>>388360time bandits is best if you saw it as a kid. I don't even mean it's too kiddy, it's just that the adventure aspects are so heavily tuned to what a kid would want that it's just not as entertaining as it could for teenagers and adults. it's better off than "family" movies that are too mind numbingly dumb for anyone BUT kids to enjoy it, but it's still an issue. it's not like you can't do a fantasy comedy and have it work for every age group, like with Princess Bride, that movie was great when I saw it as a little kid and it stayed that way as I got older.

A French-Swiss-Italian documentary film written and directed by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou. Set to the music of Bruno Coulais, the film displays close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography of detailed interactions between insects and other small invertebrates. It was screened out of competition at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

An American punk science fiction comedy film by Alex Cox, starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez. The movie chronicles the search for a missing 1964 Chevy Malibu, for which an anonymous source has posted a suspiciously large reward. The soundtrack features an original theme by Iggy Pop, as well as music from other prominent punk acts of the time.

>>388372I fucked some chick with this playing on netflix. I remember catching a glance of the screen while we were doing it, and it was these two giant slug things mating, and it almost killed my boner. Really cool movie though

Awesome movie and soundtrack, btw. It nailed that anti-consumerism aesthetic at a time when these weren't themes in popular movies (save for they live). It had a message, but it didn't take itself too seriously. it was just a little bit better than it needed to be, and that's why it's thought of as being so good.

A Spanish-Mexican dark fantasy film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. The story takes place in Spain in 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, during the early Francoist period. The narrative intertwines this real world with a mythical realm that is centered on an overgrown labyrinth and the arcane schemes of a supernatural faun creature.

A Japanese war film directed by Kon Ichikawa, starring Eiji Funakoshi, written by Natto Wada and based on the novel Nobi by Shōhei Ōoka. The film is about a tubercular Japanese private and his attempt to stay alive during the latter part of the Pacific War. The thematic struggle lies between survival and crossing the ultimate low.

An Austrian drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I. The film has been described as a moral painting about the roots of evil in authority, hierarchy and violence. It was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

A British black comedy crime film directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald. Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh, the film showcases the life choices of a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh.

>>388304Watched this last night, hot damn it was good. Pick more like this and I might watch more of these movies :) I see Trainspotting today, maybe I should grab that, depressing movies about junkies doing junkie stuff make me lol

>>388705Yo it's early as fuck and I have to go to work soon but I'm gonna do this thing again.

Movies OP Might Like:

>Decasia (2002)

It's a bunch of half decayed, archival film reel edited together to supposedly make a commentary on human impermanence or some such shit. It has an original score. It's actually a pretty neat thing to have on in the background while you do other stuff. It is somewhat nightmarish, observe trailer.

>>388705Bizzel I think you should make it a movie of the week, or biweekly. Nobody can keep up with this many movies unless they're super into movies like religiously into movies. I think if you gave the posts more time to stew it would be a more fulfilling thread.

An American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. The movie characterizes a trio of Russian American steelworkers whose lives are changed forever after they fight in the Vietnam War. The three soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, with John Cazale, Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza playing supporting roles.

I dunno I'm pretty content with the way things are going in this thread. Bizzel seems to mostly just deletes shitposts, something I've always been a fan of. Maybe if you put more effort into your posts and made them posts of quality they would not get deleted, nerds.

>>388750Considering he thinks he can have a showoff thread totally free of shitposting I think maybe he's just disoriented.Also, you don't get complaints about higgs deleting posts because he doesn't do it unless there is good reason. He just deletes posts if you even dare to shitpost about one of his glorious movies.

>>388750I've written a legitimate post saying how bad the movie was in a non-shitpost way (even the other fellas itt were recommending me to watch it) and my post mysteriously vanished. It's like when you lick moderators' asses on forums, only nice thing are allowed to be said. I don't like him, he's like Stalin.

A French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1962 novel Obsession by Lionel White. The film displays many characteristics of the then dominant pop art movement, making constant disjunctive references to various elements of mass culture.

Movies OP Might Like:Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002)Written, directed, and scored by a two person team called t.o.L. (trees of Life) of whom the members are known only as K and kuno, Tamala 2010 is a bizarre and artistic story of self discovery. The eponymous girl cat shirks her responsibilities and hitchhikes around Cat Earth trying to learn about herself and where she comes from. Meanwhile the megacorporation Catty & Co casts an oppressive shadow over the narrative as an all-controlling cult/monopoly that began as a postal service. The style of the movie varies drastically and borrows from all sorts of times and places and the narrative draws heavily from post modernism, specifically Thomas Pynchon. It's pretty fucked.

A Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a yojimbo, the Japanese word for 'bodyguard'.

>>388819eh, I would have expected you to pick one of the 30 Zatoichi films instead. I've only seen a handful but man are there some hidden gems there. I like watching the "great", well respected films as much as anyone else, but for me the real joy is in finding hidden gems. I want to see the movies that the directors of great films watched and were inspired by. Especially with jidaigeki flims I find the obscure ones have a lot more soul to them than the commonly-regarded-as-good ones.

If I had known you were going to post this I would have posted Kung Pow: Entire the First as my Movies OP Might Like. Way back when I took a film class in university we were doing a whole unit on how sound and score affects a film. I suggested we study Kung Pow for that portion of the class. My professor thought that was hilariously but flatly refused :(

>I like watching the "great", well respected films as much as anyone else, but for me the real joy is in finding hidden gems.

Well I haven;t seen any classic movies and like that this thread is getting me to finally see some of the classics like Dazed N Confused. I'll probably watch Yojimbo now, if only for the 420chan maymay

I just watched Black Mask recently because it was in a $5 bargain bin with New Police Story. Haven't seen NPS yet but BM was awesome. Really cheesy effects and music but they pull it off well and Tracy is awesome

A Hong Kong action film written and directed by John Woo, following the exploits of Inspector 'Tequila' Yuen, the undercover cop Alan, and Johnny Wong, a leader of the criminal triads. After creating several films that glamorized gangsters, Woo wanted to make a Dirty Harry styled film that glamorized the police instead.

An American blaxploitation action comedy film directed by Scott Sanders, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Jai White and Byron Minns. Starring White, Tommy Davidson, and Salli Richardson, the movie is a parody of the blaxploitation genre. It had a trailer and funding before a script was even written, and was shot in 20 days in Super 16 format.

A Portugese docufiction film by Pedro Costa, starring Vanda Duarte. It follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in the shanty outskirts of Lisbon. The film explores the community of the district and its townscape as it is slowly demolished.

A German documentary film by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba. It is named for a danzón that became the title piece of the album Buena Vista Social Club. The film documents how Ry Cooder, a long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album.

A Danish art drama film directed by Lars von Trier. The film features an international cast, including the French-American Jean-Marc Barr, Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and the Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård. The title was chosen to echo Franz Kafka's Amerika, which heavily influenced the film.

An American comedy film directed by Ben Stiller. It stars Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Will Ferrell. A satire on the fashion industry, the movie follows a dimwitted, narcissistic male model named Derek Zoolander, who becomes the pawn of corrupt fashion executives plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

An Italian-Spanish-German Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. The film stars Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto, and Joseph Egger. It was shot in Spain near Hoyo de Manzanares, in the Tabernas Desert, and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park.

A Canadian horror film directed by Guy Maddin, starring Zhang Wei-Qiang, Tara Birtwhistle, and David Moroni. It was produced for the CBC as a dance film documenting a performance by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet adapting Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The movie is shot in a fashion uncommon for such films, through close-ups and jump cuts.

An Italian splatter film by Lucio Fulci. It stars Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale, and Antoine Saint-John. The film about a young woman who inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural occurrences, she learns that the building was constructed over an entrance to Hell.

>>389200Huh I double checked my tracker and my hunch was right, I have seen that film before. I remember almost nothing about it though, I was probably extremely drunk. I vaguely remember the effects being good. I should watch it again.

An Iranian slice-of-life film directed by Jafar Panahi and written by Abbas Kiarostami. The film chronicles the misadventures of a seven-year-old girl in pursuit of a goldfish, a symbol of life, on the eve of the Iranian New Year. It is a film about children's wonder, and the excitement and danger of escaping parental influence.

>>389254If anyone is interested in a Iranian Animation Film. I would recommend;

>Persepoli

Based on Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film traces Satrapi's growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the growing tensions of the political climate in Iran in the 70s and 80s, with members of her liberal-leaning family detained and then executed, and the background of the disastrous Iran/Iraq war.

>>389258I don't wanna be that guy, and persepolis is amazing and you should watch it and also read the original graphic novel, but it's only Iranian in that the author once lived in Iran, it was written in French, published in French, and the film is a French animation.

>>389261I just mean don't take it as an example of Iranian animation or cinema because it isn't, the story is still obviously massively influenced by the author's life in Iran and is visually influenced by Persian art and like I said it is amazing and I'd 100% recommend it, but its pretty disconnected from the Iranian film scene which is starting to get a little bit of prominence with people abroad discovering Iranian new-wave and things like A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night becoming international cult hits and it irks me when people lump Marjan Satrapi in with that stuff cause nigga she grew up artistically in the franco-belgian comics scene of the 90s and hasn't worked in media in Iran in her life.

An American comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Owen Wilson. It stars Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, and Bill Murray. The movie depicts an eccentric teenager, his friendship with a rich industrialist, and their mutual infatuation with a bookish elementary school teacher.

A British psychological horror film produced and directed by Robert Wise. The film is based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. It presents the experiences of a small group of people invited by a paranormal investigator to scrutinize a purportedly haunted house.

A Soviet science fiction art film by Andrei Tarkovsky, based on the novel of the same name by Stanisław Lem. It is a meditative psychological drama occurring aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The film follows a psychologist who is sent to the station to evaluate the skeleton crew of three scientists after they all mysteriously fall into separate emotional crises.

An American science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Dan O'Bannon, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. The movie chronicles the actions of a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and attacks the crew of a spaceship.

A Japanese-British animated cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Mamoru Oshii. The screenplay was written by Kazunori Itō, based on the manga by Masamune Shirow. Set in 2029, the film depicts a futuristic world of cybernetics, where the distinction between human consciousness and networked computers has been transcended by the invention of the cyberbrain.

A Finnish comedy-drama film written, directed, and produced by Aki Kaurismäki. It is the story of an unnamed man who is mugged and beaten in a park, suffering a severe head injury that results in amnesia. As he cannot remember his name or address, he is left without a place to live or work and forced to begin from scratch.

An Italian film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, with music by Ennio Morricone. Based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the film includes eight of the 24 tales and contains abundant nudity, sex, and slapstick humour. It was awarded the Golden Bear at the 1972 Berlin film festival.

>Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel>Posing as a man

>>389676They starred together once in The World According to Garp (1982) as mother and son, but get this - right at the end, "she" dies and "he" is banned from her funeral by feminists... so he goes anyway IN DISGUISE AS A WOMAN

An American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont. The movie stars Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Alan Ruck, and Jeff Daniels. It follows an LAPD cop who tries to rescue civilians on a city bus rigged with a bomb programmed to explode if the bus slows down below 50 mph.

An Italian biographical drama film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is a cinematic rendition of the story of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, from the Nativity through the Resurrection. In 2015, L'Osservatore Romano called it the greatest film on Christ ever made.

A German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem, the film revolves around an unlikely relationship which develops between an elderly woman and a Moroccan migrant worker in post-World War II Germany.

An American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. The movie focuses on a woman whose unusual behavior leads her husband to commit her for psychiatric treatment and the effect this has on their family. In 1999, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Satoshi Kon, with a score composed by Susumu Hirasawa. Based on novel of the same name by Yasutaka Tsutsui, the film is about a research psychologist who explores the capabilities of a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.

I've been watching Berlin Alexanderplatz slowly over the past year while studying German. It's a 16 hour haul of suffering. Miniseries don't usually treat themselves as super-long films but this absolutely does.

It's so weird and good. It's like the nexus between film, television, the stage play and a great novel. It's fucking incredible.

>>389814I really liked the trippiness of it, as dreams and what goes on in one's head always fascinated me in sci-fi and that internet bar thing I feel like is trippy in its own right. Really great film, but I can't help but think about this girl I have a slight crush on who reminds me of Paprika and the whole sexual assault thing makes me uncomfortable especially since Paprika is reminding me of this girl irl.

An Irish-French-Belgian animated film directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey. The film characterizes a young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. The boy is drawn into history when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book brimming with secret wisdom and powers.

An Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi. Its score was composed by the Italian progressive rock group Goblin. The film stars Macha Meril as a medium and David Hemmings as a man who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves.

An American romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It stars Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, and Linda Manz. Set in 1916, the film tells the story of Bill and Abby, two lovers who travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest crops for a wealthy farmer. Bill encourages Abby to claim the fortune of the dying farmer by tricking him into a false marriage.

An American science fiction comedy-drama thriller film produced and directed by L.Q. Jones. It is based on the 1969 cycle of narratives by fantasy author Harlan Ellison. The movie concerns a teenage boy and his telepathic dog, who work together as a team in order to survive in the dangerous post-apocalyptic wasteland of the Southwestern United States.

I had to watch this god damned movie in my first year film class and I don't know what it was about it that pissed me off so god damn much but it did. Like I get it magic hour and it looks beautiful but the story was kinda shitty to me and overall the film was boring.

I kinda want to re-watch to see if I was wrong but even watching the trailer just managed to piss me off. For real can someone explain outside of it looking gorgeous why anyone cares about this movie?

A New Zealand splatstick comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson. The film follows a village dweeb living with his mother in a Victorian mansion, who constantly gets into trouble for his relationship with a Spanish shopkeeper's daughter. After a rabid rat-monkey bites his mother, she gradually converts the residents of the small town into a zombie horde.

A French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. It stars Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim. The film explores class relationships among a small group of French officers who are prisoners of war during World War I and are plotting an escape.

A British experimental film by Derek Jarman. Released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications that had already rendered him partially blind, it is his last testament as a filmmaker. The film consists of a single shot of saturated blue color filling the screen, serving as background to a soundtrack of Jarman and some of his long-time collaborators describing his life and vision.

>>390090That's one of the biggest things I look at when I watch an art house film. I think to myself "Does this need to be a movie? Could this be a radio play? Or a slideshow?" For example, pretty much all of Terrence Malick's films could be reduced to a power point presentation and no semantic value would be lost.

>>390093You reeeeally don't understand what I'm talking about. It would be like having a nice big blank canvas and a variety of colors of paints and you draw a little stickman in one corner of the canvas with a pencil. Waste of a medium.

A South Korean-Czech science fiction action drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho, based on the graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette. The movie depicts a desperate class struggle between the lower-class tail section passengers and the elite at the front of a globe-spanning train, which holds the last remnants of humanity after global disaster.

A French science fiction short film written and directed by Chris Marker. The film is almost entirely constructed from optically printed photographs playing out as a photomontage of varying rhythm. It tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.

An American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, with a screenplay written by David and Janet Peoples. The movie stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt. It concerns a prisoner of the state in the year 2035, who can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and attempt to thwart an apocalyptic plague.

An American horror comedy film written and directed by John Landis, starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne. It tells the tale of two friends attacked by a werewolf on the moors of Northern England. The survivor is taken to a hospital in London, where disturbing apparitions of his deceased friend inform him that he has become a werewolf.

An American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. The movie was co-written by Chad and Carey Hayes. It stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren, paranormal investigators and authors who are associated with prominent cases of haunting. The Warrens come to the assistance of a Rhode Island family haunted by a demon at their farmhouse in 1971.

An American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by David Cronenberg. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, and John Getz. Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story of the same name, it tells of an eccentric scientist who, after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong, slowly turns into a fly-hybrid creature.

>>390329meh, i thought there was some nice nods to horror movies from the 70s. Also, i think there's one genuinely good sp00k: the clapping scene. Not necessarily bad imo, but doesn't do anything genre-pushing.

A French romantic comedy-drama film directed by François Truffaut. It was co-written by Truffaut, Claude de Givray and Bernard Revon, and stars Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade. The film continues the story of the character Antoine Doinel, as he struggles to return to civilian life after leaving the army and begins a tumultuous relationship with Christine Darbon.

A Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film is a critique on corporate corruption. It stars Toshiro Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his father's death.

A Spanish drama film directed by Víctor Erice. It was written by Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, and Francisco J. Querejeta, with a score composed by Luis de Pablo. Set in 1940s Francoist Spain, the film focuses on a young girl named Ana, detailing her family life, education, and fascination with the 1931 American horror movie Frankenstein.

A Japanese surrealist drama film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, written by Kōbō Abe, and starring Eiji Okada and Kyōko Kishida. The film is about an expedition that is undertaken by an entomologist schoolteacher who intends to collect insects that inhabit sand dunes; however, a bizarre twist lands him in absurd, Sisyphean circumstances.

An American horror monster film directed by James Whale. The movie was adapted from the play by Peggy Webling, which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley. It is about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity. The assistant accidentally gives the creature a murderer's abnormal brain.

>>390598if you focus all your attention for art and media in general on movies it's possible. like how some people just read books and don't fuck with anything else besides maybe music (everybody loves some kinda music). I kinda wish I watched at least one new (to me) movie every week, but I get distracted by other shit so I'm not consistent about it.

>>390846I try to. For the last few months I've been going back and watching all these "greats" that people talk about and reference all the time but that I haven't seen. The ones that I know quite a bit about just in secondhand knowledge.I finally watched Stand By Me a few weeks ago. The next one on my list is Dazed and Confused.

Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning "life out of balance," this renowned documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Featuring extensive footage of natural landscapes and elemental forces, the film gives way to many scenes of modern civilisation and technology. Given its lack of narration and dialogue, the production makes its points solely through imagery and music, with many scenes either slowed down or sped up for dramatic effect.

>>390846I wouldnt even say that you would need to focus all your time on it. I feel like these days people dont have the attention span, commitment or time to watch films (and thats fine..). Most of my friends instead watch netflix series and the like. Game of thrones clocks in at 63.5 hrs. Thats something like 31 classic films, or 5 or so big classic novels (Interestingly enough the Game of Thrones books would take an average reader 74 hrs).

Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it and who knows maybe even score. On the way they encounter a murderous smuggler of a deadly virus and his treacherous wife an FBI agent with a predilection for cavity searches a couple of rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies Mr. Van Dreesen singing "Lesbian Seagull" a little old lady and of course Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Uh-huh. Huh-huh.

A timeless tale in which a young boy and a talented stray dog with an amazing basketball playing ability become instant friends. Rebounding from his father's accidental death, 12-year-old Josh Framm moves with his family to the small town of Fernfield, Washington. The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. Josh is amazed when he realizes that Buddy loves basketball...that is playing basketball...and he is GOOD! Josh eventually makes the school team and Buddy is named the Team Mascot. Josh and Buddy become the stars of halftime. Buddy's half-time talent draws media attention. Unfortunately, when Buddy's mean former owner, Norm Snively, comes along with a scheme to cash in on the pup's celebrity, it looks like they are going to be separated.

A Japanese comedy film directed by Nagisa Oshima. It is based on the pop song of the same name by The Folk Crusaders, who also star as the three main characters. The film is a commentary on the way Korean immigrants are treated in Japan. It presents the comic misadventures of three young men who are mistakenly identified as Koreans and harassed as such by the bumbling authorities.

An American science fiction monster film directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, and Colin Clive. In the movie, a chastened Henry Frankenstein abandons his plans to create life, only to be tempted and finally coerced by his old mentor Dr. Pretorius, along with threats from the Monster, into constructing a mate for the Monster.

A French drama film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. The film portrays one day in the life of three young friends in the banlieues of Paris. It reveals their struggle to live in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project, a struggle that is further complicated when one of them finds a gun that was misplaced by the police.

An American biographical drama film co-written and directed by Paul Schrader. The movie is based on the life and work of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, interweaving episodes from his life with dramatizations of segments from his books The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses.

An Australian bushranger western film directed by John Hillcoat, written by Nick Cave, and scored by Cave and Warren Ellis. Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the film depicts a series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family by the infamous Burns brothers gang.

A German romantic drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, and Karlheinz Böhm. The plot concerns a working-class lottery winner who falls in love with the elegant son of an industrialist, only to be deceitfully swindled out of his newfound forture. The film is an incisive look at the relationship between money and emotions.

An American rock music mockumentary comedy film directed by Rob Reiner. Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer co-wrote and co-star in the movie, which satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands, as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rock documentaries of the time.

A British religious satire comedy film directed by Terry Jones. The film features the comedy group Monty Python, which includes Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin. It recounts the tale of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

An American romantic black comedy drama film directed by Hal Ashby, with a soundtrack by Cat Stevens. Starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon, the movie revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold, who is intrigued with death. He drifts away from the life that his detached mother prescribes for him, slowly developing a peculiar, liberating relationship with an aging free spirit named Maude.

A French drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seaberg, the film is about a wandering criminal who is intrigued with the movie persona of Humphrey Bogart. The film is famous for its bold visual style, especially its unconventional use of jump cuts.

An American absurdist comedy film by Jim Jarmusch. It stars John Lurie, Richard Edson, and Eszter Balint. The film is shot entirely in single long takes with no standard coverage. The plot is minimalist. The main character, Willie, has a cousin from Hungary named Eva. She stays with him before leaving for Cleveland. Eventually, Willie and his friend go to Cleveland to visit Eva.

A Czech dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. It is a loose adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, portraying a girl who follows a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy land. The film combines live action with stop motion animation to present an amoral, dream-like Wonderland.

They way it's shot is interesting (as I guess all Gus Van Sant films are), but the acting is noticeably terrible (I think amateurs and non-actors were specifically casted for "realism"), and the message Van Sant gives through the film is pretentious and masturbatory. After watching it you'll just wonder "Why did I waste my time watching this?" because absolutely nothing is accomplished in its 70 or so minute runtime.

A Japanese experimental animated short film directed by Tatsuo Satō, inspired by the work of manga artist Nekojiru. Its screenplay was written by Satō and Masaaki Yuasa. The film illustrates the surreal adventure of Nyatta, an anthropomorphic kitten, depicting his travels to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister's soul.

An American documentary film written, directed, and narrated by Werner Herzog. The film follows Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger on a journey to Antarctica, to meet people who live and work there, to capture footage of the continent's unique locations, and to explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.

A Soviet war film written by Viktor Rozov and directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. Starring Aleksey Batalov and Tatiana Samoilova, the film exposes the cruelty of war and the damage suffered to the Russian psyche as a result of the Second World War. It was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

Sorry i didnt see your post till plane crash guy replied. How is drawing a stickman on a big blank canvas in the corner a waste of a medium? Is drawing a tiny little stickfigure at the bottom not what you wanted to do?

I get what you're trying to say i just dont agree with it. Yeah you had all those colours and yeah you had a whole bunch of space to use them, but you didnt, you could have but you didnt and that in of itself is an expression of who you are and says things about you.

Oh he didn't die or anything, we used to date irl, just wanted him to know I still miss him and think of him fondly and hope he's doing well or whatever. This probably just seems creepy so I apologize.

>>391750gay, tell us about the sexAlso, he abandoned the thread because he got the boot from the king spergs. Kinda unfair if you ask me, but that's the way it goes.. They don't give a shit about the rules until they're given a chance to flex their e peen and boot someone they don't like.And he's such a nice guy that he still defends them.

Shit I missed him by two weeks? He got banned? :( I'll be kicking myself. I took some solace in knowing he'd eventually read this.

His head game was incredible. We never had anal cuz that hurt too much for him but I wasn't willing to wait on that indefinitely. I don't wanna say too much cuz I don't think he'd appreciate that on the off chance he does come back and read this.

I still think about him every day. Just reading this thread was intense for me and it's just some movie synopses.

An American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. The movie chronicles the ball culture of New York City in the 1980s and the black, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. In 2016, the film was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A French-German-Canadian experimental comedy-drama film by Dušan Makavejev, starring Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal, Pierre Clémenti, Jane Mallett, and Roy Callender. It presents two storylines, one of which follows a Canadian beauty queen of modern commodity culture, while the other depicts a failed communist revolutionary captain aboard a ship laden with candy and sugar.

A Mexican surrealist film written and directed by Luis Buñuel. It features an ensemble cast, including Claudio Brook, Enrique Rambal, Lucy Gallardo, Augusto Benedico, and Silvia Pinal. The film reveals the surreal predicament of a wealthy married couple and their aristocratic dinner guests, who find themselves unobstructed yet trapped in a lavish room for no clear reason.

A French comedy film written by Jacques Tati, Jacques Lagrange, and Art Buchwald, directed by and starring Tati. It is structured in six sequences that link two characters, Barbara, a young American tourist visiting Paris with a group composed primarily of middle-aged American women, and Monsieur Hulot, a befuddled Frenchman lost in the new modernity of Paris.

A French-British animated drama film directed and edited by Sylvain Chomet, who also scored the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Henri Marquet. It is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director, and actor Jacques Tati, which revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.

An American animated science fiction film directed by Andrew Stanton, co-written by Stanton, Jim Reardon, and Pete Docter. The protagonist is a trash compactor robot on a deserted world, left to clean a derelict city; however, after a visit from a space probe, he falls in love and pursues her across the galaxy. The movie criticizes consumerism, obesity, corporatism, and human environmental impact.

A French animated fantasy adventure drama film directed by Mark Osborne, based on the 1943 novel of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The film relates the story of the book using stop motion animation that is woven into a computer animated framing narrative about a young girl who has just met the book's now-elderly aviator narrator.

An American satirical drama film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet. It depicts a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The movie stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, and Robert Duvall, with Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty, and Beatrice Straight. In 2000, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A Japanese animated dystopian cyberpunk science fiction film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, based on his manga of the same name. The film tells the story of a local biker gang whose lives are upended when one of them acquires telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amidst chaos and rebellion in a sprawling futuristic metropolis.

An American sports drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky. It stars Mickey Rourke as an aging professional wrestler who, despite his failing health and waning fame, continues to wrestle in an attempt to cling to the success of his 1980s heyday, to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter, and to find romance with a maturing woman who works as a stripper.

A Hong Kong romantic drama film by Wong Kar-wai. The Chinese title translates to 'the age of blossoms' or 'the flowery years', a Chinese metaphor for the fleeting time of youth, beauty, and love, which is derived from the 1946 song of the same name by Zhou Xuan. The English title derives from the 1935 song I'm the Mood for Love by Jimmy McHugh, with lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

An American neo-noir vigilante psychological thriller film written by Paul Schrader and directed by Martin Scorsese. Set in New York City following the Vietnam War, the movie stars Robert De Niro, with Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks. It was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.

An American neo-noir mystery film written and directed by David Lynch, with a score by Angelo Badalamenti. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, and Laura Dern, it blends dark psychological horror with provocative film noir. The title is taken from Bobby Vinton's 1963 song of the same name.

An American dystopian art film written and directed by Harmony Korine. The film is set in Xenia, Ohio, a small, poor Midwestern American town that had been previously struck by a devastating tornado. The loose narrative follows several main characters who find odd and destructive ways to pass time, interrupted by vignettes depicting other inhabitants of the town.

An American transgressive black comedy exploitation film by John Waters. It stars the drag queen and counterculture icon Divine as a perverse criminal, Babs Johnson, 'the filthiest person alive'. She is confronted by a wicked and debaucherous couple who are envious of her reputation. The movie is notorious for the myriad of grotesque, bizarre, and explicitly crude situations that it presents.

You should make movies made in America at least half instead of like 1/8th of them being Western, because your American choices are always good. I'm sure I"m not the only one who sees "French" and suddenly thinks "Pretentious" and tunes it out.

As a gay man, are you like super into anal and getting men's shit on your dick, or are you more into oral and being a general cumslut? I often wake up at night sweating, wondering.. I know an answer just came to me in a dream but for the life of me, it's gone!Quit stringing us along and tell us!

A French-British-Belgian-Canadian animated comedy film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet, with music by Benoît Charest. It employs song and pantomine to tell the story of Madame Souza, an elderly woman who sets out a voyage to rescue her grandson Champion, a Tour de France cyclist, who has been kidnapped by the French mafia.

A Japanese animated action adventure comedy film directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The screenplay was co-written by Miyazaki and Haruya Yamazaki, based on the manga Lupin III by Monkey Punch. The film's protagonist is the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin III, who successfully robs a casino only to find the money to be counterfeit. Tracing the fraudulent bills launches the antihero thief on a virtuous quest.

A German thriller drama film directed by Fritz Lang, co-written by Lang and Thea von Harbou, and starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, and Gustaf Gründgens. The film chronicles the actions of a serial killer of children and the manhunt for him, conducted by both the police and the criminal underworld.

A French-German-Iranian docufiction film essay directed by Orson Welles. Starring Welles, Oja Kodar, Clifford Irving, and Elmyr de Hory, it focuses on de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; his story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the basis of art's value and the natures of authorship and authenticity.

A French-Italian drama film by Agnès Varda, with music by Michel Legrand. It stars Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, and Dorothée Blanck. The film examines the existential dread of a distraught, superstitious, and self-obsessed young singer as she passes two hours in Paris while waiting to hear the results of a medical test that will possibly confirm a diagnosis of cancer.

A Greek-Dutch-Irish-French-British absurdist dystopian black comedy film by Yorgos Lanthimos. In the film's setting, single people are given 45 days to find a romantic partner or otherwise be turned into animals. It stars Colin Farrell as a newly-single man trying to find someone so that he can remain human, and Rachel Weisz as a woman with whom he attempts to form a relationship.

An American drama film directed by Nicholas Ray. The movie tracks three emotionally confused and criminally delinquent suburban teenagers, investigating and critiquing their behavior as a response to the actions and attitudes of their parents and the world at large. In 1990, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

An American crime film by Terrence Malick. Loosely based on the crimes of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the film portrays the story of an impressionable 15-year-old girl's infatuation with a sociopathic greaser and the murder spree he embarks on through the badlands of Montana. In 1993, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

An Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra, and starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris. It explores stark industrial landscapes in scenes that mirror the unease, alienation, and vivid perceptions of the main character, a neurotic woman isolated by her anxiety and doubt.

An American historical drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, taking inspiration from the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A Chinese art drama film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang. The film concerns the titular horse thief and his efforts to support his family after they are ostracized from their community in the harsh mountain terrain of Tibet. It is fascinated with remote ethnic minorities and the unique Buddhist ceremonies that they practice.

A German documentary film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. It is a film about deaf-blind people and their experience, centering on Fini Straubinger, a woman who became deaf-blind early in life. The film documents her visits with other deaf-blind people and discusses their struggle to live in the modern world.

An American dystopian crime film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess. The movie follows a charismatic, antisocial delinquent whose interests include classical music, rape, and what he terms 'ultra-violence'. It depicts the abhorrent crimes of his gang, his capture, and his attempted rehabilitation via a controversial psychological conditioning technique.

A Japanese surreal comedy film co-written and co-directed by Katsuhito Ishii, Hajimine Ishimine, and Shunichiro Miki. Its narrative consists of multiple storylines, and the film features a disorienting amalgamation of genres and techniques, including sketch comedy, computer animated science fiction, slice-of-life, body horror, and musical comedy.

An American satirical science fiction romantic adventure comedy film directed by W.D. Richter. The movie stars Peter Weller as the title character, Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a particle physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock star who is tasked with saving the planet from hostile aliens when his latest experiment opens the door to the 8th dimension.

An American musical fantasy film directed by Victor Fleming, with songs by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Yip Harburg, and a score by Herbert Stothart. It stars Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lahr. The movie is an adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. In 1989, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

An Australian-American dystopian cyberpunk science fiction film by Lana and Lilly Wachowski. The film draws material from a multifarious range of philosophical, literary, and cinematic sources: from Plato to Jean Baudrillard, Lewis Carroll to William Gibson, and bullet time in Japanese animation to wire fu in Hong Kong action film. In 2012, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A Japanese animated comedy-drama film directed by Satoshi Kon, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Keiko Nobumoto. The film occurs over one Christmas Eve when three people, a middle-aged alcoholic named Gin, a former drag queen Hana, and a dependent runaway girl Miyuki, discover an abandoned newborn while looking through the garbage.

An American animated dark fantasy musical film directed by Henry Selick, based on a poem by Tim Burton, and adapted for the screen by Caroline Thompson. It spins the tale of Jack Skellington of 'Halloween Town', who stumbles through a portal to 'Christmas Town' and decides to celebrate the holiday, with dastardly and comical consequences. Danny Elfman composed the music and provided the singing voice of Jack.

A British-Japanese war drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima. The screenplay was written by Oshima and Paul Mayersberg, based on Laurens van der Post's experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II. The score was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who also stars in the film alongside David Bowie, Tom Conti, Takeshi Kitano, and Jack Thompson.

An Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Ravi Shankar composed the soundtrack and score using classical Indian ragas. Even though the film was produced with a small budget, stars amateur actors, and was shot on location by an inexperienced crew, it is still considered one of the most powerful and influential films ever made.

An Iranian docudrama film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. Co-written by Samira and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film records the real-life tribulations of two daughters who spent twelve years imprisoned by their parents, an unemployed man and his blind wife. Eventually liberated by social services, the halfway feral children undergo a bittersweet introduction to the rest of the world.

A French autobiographical drama film written, produced, and directed by Louis Malle. It is set in a Catholic boarding school in occupied France during World War II, where a compassionate priest has covertly enrolled three Jewish students in an attempt to spare them from the Holocaust.

An American silent comedy film co-directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, starring Keaton and Marion Mack. The movie is a humorous retelling of a famous raid from the American Civil War, adapted from the 1863 memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger. In 1989, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A Soviet animated short film written by Sergei Kozlov and directed by Yuriy Norshteyn. It uses meticulous stop motion animation to depict the uncertain travels of a hedgehog through murky woodlands, following him on his way to meet his beloved friend, a bear cub, so that they may stargaze together.

An American documentary film produced, edited, and directed by Errol Morris. The film itself is unnarrated, relying instead on interviews and location shooting to relate its disinterested inquiry into the lives of the entrepeneurs and patrons of the pet cemetery industry.

A Japanese animated slice-of-life fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The film tells a consoling folktale about the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with benevolent forest spirits in rural postwar Japan.

>>392612>>392611look, he got in a little bit of trouble in hawaii, got thrown in jail, kirtaner was in the cell too, and some stuff happened. he's not proud of what he did, but I think we as a community need to move forward from this.

An American romantic musical film directed by Vincente Minnelli, featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. It stars Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch. The screenplay was written by Alan Jay Lerner and inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 orchestral composition of the same name. In 1993, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

A Swedish psychological drama film by Ingmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. The narrative revolves around a young nurse named Alma and her patient, a well-known stage actress called Elisabet Vogler, who has inexplicably fallen into a catatonic state. They move to a cottage by the sea, where Alma cares for Elisabet, confides in her, and begins having trouble distinguishing herself from her patient.

A Japanese period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, co-written by Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto, and starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura. Based on the 1922 short story In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, it scrutinizes the widely differing and mutually contradictory accounts of four witnesses to the rape of a woman and the murder of her samurai husband.

>>392691Very good movie. Most people will always say "the book is better", but this really shows how and adaptation can do things on film that can't be conveyed in a book. For example, the use of lighting in this film is an incredible way to show the two sides (of every person, every story, etc.)

An American courtroom drama film written by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet. It regards a jury as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant facing capital punishment. In pursuit of a unanimous verdict, the jurors are forced to question their personal values and the idea of reasonable doubt. In 2007, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

>>392713 The film synopsis doesn't really tell you anything about this movie containing a few of the best acting roles committed to film in the era; Peter Fonda is particularly good and the supporting cast really make it feel like a 1950s period piece through modern eyes.

An American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, and Max Minghella.

>>392769I like David Fincher as a director though Aaron Sorkin is hit or miss as a writer. I saw it in the theater and I liked it although Andy Samberg as Mark Zuckerberg would have been more entertaining.

A Canadian-American psychological body horror film directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jeremy Irons as pair of disturbed identical twin gynecologists. The script was co-written by Cronenberg and Norman Snide, based very loosely on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus.

"Facebook: The Movie" wasn't the point of the movie, though. I could have sworn there was someone else above that made this point (either they got banned and all of their posts were wiped or I read this in a different thread that brought up The Social Network) but it's really a mini bipoic masking a drama about how fame and fortune can warp anyone and ruin friendships due to the money at stake.

A Japanese animated fantasy film by Hayao Miyazaki. Based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones, the film is set in a fictional kingdom where magic and early 20th century technology coexist. It tells the story of a young hatter who is transformed into an old woman by a witch's curse, whereafter she escapes to the wilderness, only to encounter more sorcery and farther-reaching conflict.

A British-American dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, co-written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard, and featuring a score by Michael Kamen. It is a bleak satire of bureaucracy, consumerism, and authority, based in part on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The film's title and theme are derived from Geoff Muldaur's rendition of the song Aquarela do Brasil by Ary Barroso.

Alright ill give it a shot i spose, i was going to based on >>392865 Then wasnt based on >>392870 (reminds me of the same guy who couldnt understand a black mirror plot) but i guess ill give it a go based on you. even though nostalgia critic is a negative selling point.

An American political satire film by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. After a rogue general orders an unprovoked nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, the President of the United States, his advisers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force officer desperately attempt to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. In 1989, it was preserved in the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.

An American zombie horror film written, edited, and directed by George A. Romero. The movie stars David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of the outbreak who find sanctuary from the zombie horde inside a suburban shopping mall, barricading themselves within it as society collapses around them.

A British zombie horror film written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle. It stars Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, and Christopher Eccleston. The film depicts a global catastrophe which begins when three activists break into a research laboratory to free the chimpanzee subjects of a gruesome experiment, unintentionally unleashing a rabies-like zombie virus that quickly becomes a pandemic.

Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch or ragtag losers with no hope. Using such teaching tools as live grenades and real bullets, Payne starts to instill the Corps with some hope. But when Payne is recalled to fight in Bosnia, will he leave the Corps that has just started to believe in him, or will he find out that killin' ain't much of a livin'?